The restorative promise of the new system brings us closer as a community and signals a new era for Honor's relationship with UVA students. We must build off of our first ever Honor Week and International Student Days to bring every student into the celebratory togetherness of a community revived. 

Aside from applying lessons learned from this year's outreach to next year, we must expand the role of Honor's Community Relations Diversity Advisory Committee (CRDAC). They currently do effective work with focus groups, gathering perspectives from underrepresented and overreported groups, but they can be doing so much more, especially with Honor's emphasis on community relations as we are building our new system. CRDAC is the only sub-committee of the Honor Committee that accepts students who are not Honor support officers, and we should encourage student leaders that represent different elements of our community to advise the Honor Committee as members of CRDAC. We must also continue to connect with the important work of CIOs through co-sponsorships and increased communication and support for their initiatives. Students often establish their identity at the University through student groups, and Honor has the opportunity to bring those groups closer together and closer to our UVA community through the connecting power of trust. 

While it may seem obvious, sanctions remain the most important element of the new multi-sanction system. In particular, we have to continue to build and adjust our community based restorative sanctions to be ready for more students from a wide range of backgrounds. Community sanctions such as the Restorative Ethics Seminar, Mentorship, and XYZ Case Studies are in a different category from amends like apology letters or returning stolen goods because Honor creates and facilitates the community sanctions. When a student commits an Honor Offense, they have broken a promise not just to the professor or reporter but to every other student in our Community of Trust. Therefore, the student must restore their broken bonds of trust with the broader community along with the personal amends made to the individuals who were most impacted by the Honor Offense. Our community sanctions represent the values of our community, so they must continue to reflect the perspective of the students. 

A stronger relationship between faculty and the Honor Committee helps every student, both in class and for those accused of an Honor Offense. Toward the end of the single sanction system, Honor's relationship with faculty bottomed out, with several faculty members and even whole departments refusing to report to Honor. Honor reports help accused students because, in Honor, they have the right to a trial by their peers rather than being forced to accept the potentially unfounded accusations of the professor. The way in which faculty approach Honor in their classes also shapes students' attitudes about the implementation of Honor's principles. The detrimental impact of strained relationships between Honor and faculty have weighed on our entire Community of Trust. 

In the new system, we have the opportunity to reestablish respectful, productive relationships with faculty across Grounds because the system works better for them: case efficiency has improved, the informed retraction has become an avenue to effectively facilitate amends between students and faculty, and professors are looking for student perspectives on complicated issues like generative artificial intelligence. I will prioritize working with the UVA administration and faculty to ensure that our we take advantage of their newly found common ground with students as we work toward our aligned goals in pursuing the truth.